Engineering Squad Lead
Hybrid (Remote Europe)€90k - €120kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Engineering Squad Lead for Lago, a hybrid Europe-based role leading a squad within Lago's open-source billing platform. Combines hands-on technical work with people and delivery leadership to own a domain's architecture, roadmap, production health, and team effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Share technical authority with the Staff Engineer for your squad's domain: evaluate trade-offs together and drive architecture decisions
- Stay hands-on: code review, prototyping, contributing to critical paths
- Maintain code quality and review standards within the squad
- Own the code health of your domain
- Own the squad's roadmap execution for the quarter
- Run sprint planning, keep work moving, and unblock engineers day-to-day
- Ensure the squad is prepared for biweekly product demos and decide who presents
- Act as the primary engineering point of contact for Product: scope features, communicate trade-offs, and align on priorities
- Own production health for your squad's domain: monitor dashboards (Grafana, Sentry), respond to alerts, and resolve incidents
- Triage and resolve customer-reported issues within SLA targets, coordinating with Customer Success
- Monitor and address CVEs and security vulnerabilities within your domain
- Coordinate a squad of up to 10 engineers
- Run operational 1:1s, give day-to-day feedback, and flag performance signals to the Head of Engineering
- Coordinate the onboarding of new team members into the squad
- Define and adjust the squad's ways of working: balancing agility and discipline
- Drive engineering excellence: track DORA metrics, reduce cycle time, raise the quality bar
- Continuously improve how the squad works based on team feedback and results
Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience (ideally 2/3+ in a Squad or Tech Lead position), strong backend and production environment knowledge
- Track record of shipping reliable, high-quality software in a fast-moving product company
- Comfortable in a complex technical domain: distributed systems, APIs, data integrity, or similar
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to bridge engineering and product
- Experience owning production: incident response, monitoring, on-call, SLA ownership
Skills
Required:Backend software engineeringArchitecture and technical leadershipProduction incident managementCommunication with product and stakeholders
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Hybrid work model: work from anywhere in Europe or in Paris office
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Lago
Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing
Lago is the open-source alternative to Stripe, with a laser focus on transparency, metering, developer experience, and composability: addressing complex pricing grids and business workflows. Their team previously built and scaled the home-grown billing system of Qonto (a $5B Fintech in Europe), from pre-launch to the tens of millions of MRR. Lago is the leading open-source repository and community in this space.
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